Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March 9th, 2026
Posted: 9th March 2026
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March 9, 2025
Screenshot from footage of a missile attack in Tehran, Iran.
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War in Iran: Views from the ground
The United States and Israel have launched thousands of missiles targeting Iran’s government and military. Iran’s counterattacks have struck Israel and other US-allied countries. Bulletin editors compiled clips shared by those experiencing the escalating war firsthand. Watch now.
Fukushima at 15: Living with radioactive hot spots and stigma as Japan’s government pushes for more reactors
Fifteen years later, the lived experience of people resettling the evacuation zone reveals an ongoing disaster at Fukushima—one filled with radioactive hot spots, injustices, and stigma, writes Thomas A. Bass. Read more.
France has a new nuclear doctrine of ‘forward deterrence’ for Europe. What does it mean?
Last week, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France will increase the number of its nuclear warheads—as well as cease public disclosures of warhead totals, a break with decades of transparency, writes Héloïse Fayet. Read more.
Richard Somerville on the long history of climate change science
Climate change is a “moral and ethical issue,” says climate scientist Richard Somerville in this interview with Bulletin climate editor Jessica McKenzie. “The consequences of what we do will be for, not only our future kids, but for all of the world.” Read more.
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The state of nuclear risk in this year’s Doomsday Clock discussion
Bulletin Science and Security Board (SASB) member Jon B. Wolfsthaldiscusses the nuclear weapons issues that were factored into the 2026 Doomsday Clock decision. Subscribe for more upcoming interviews from the SASB. Watch now.
Facts and physics still matter: a response to Wilson’s historiography
The legacies of physicists Hans Bethe and Richard Garwin are “important to issues of nuclear war and peace, to history, and to the Bulletin readership,” writes Herbert Lin, a senior research scholar and research fellow at Stanford University. Read more.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“The conversation about [climate] solutions is actually many parallel conversations, each focused on a single important pathway.”
— Robert Socolow, physicist and member of the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board, “Six trillion ways to solve climate change,’” Yale Climate Connections
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